PTC Solution Day 2010
2010-01-06
Date : 25th Jan 2010
Venue : Sunway Resort , Selangor, Malaysia
PTC would like to extend an invitation to you to join us at PTC Solution Day Conference series 2010. This annual series of business and technology events are open to industry professionals who want to know about new initiatives, solutions, products and services in the areas of product development, publishing and content management. Enrolment is free of charge for PTC's customers and the format is 1-day with a closing reception.
Agenda include:- Technology Strategy & Vision
- Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 Update & Wildfire 6.0 Beyond
- Product Development System Demonstration
- Windchill & ProductPoint - Road map & Demo
- MathCAD and Isodraw - Overview
- Cocreate - Product Positioning
- New product - InSight/Relex
Singapore 22nd Jan 2010 Marina Mandarin
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 25th Jan 2010 Sunway Resort
Auckland, New Zealand 27th Jan 2010 Novotel Auckland Ellerslie
Sydney, Australia 29th Jan 2010 Rydges North Sydney
Duration: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM Important Info:
- RSVP by 18th Jan, 2010.
- Coffee break & Lunch will be served.
- Please print out your confirmation email when attend the event, NO Walk-ins allowed.
- PTC reserves the right to reject any registrations as we deem fit.
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Computer-Aided Qualitative Research Asia
2009-11-16
Venue: Kuala Lumpur
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5th International Qualitative Research Convention
2009-10-06
Venue: Marriot Putrajaya
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QSR wins Dell Small Business Excellence Award in Australia
2009-09-23
Date: 22 September 2009
Category: Announcements
QSR International was today named the winner of the Second Annual Dell Small Business Excellence Award in Australia. The company will now represent Australia in the 2009 Global Dell Small Business Excellence Award and compete against national winners from 12 other countries across Europe, North America and Asia.
QSR International CEO John Owen said the company's flexibility and strong focus on finding new ways to meet its clients' changing needs through technology had contributed to its success.
"We're an Australian business with a big global footprint and our success has been almost entirely attributable to innovation," he said.
"We operate in a fast-paced environment and one that's been revolutionized by digital data sources in recent years. Being an SME (small-medium enterprise) can be an advantage – our size has certainly allowed us to be flexible and responsive and consistently set the bar in our market."
Deborah Harrigan, Dell’s general manager, Small to Medium Business division for Australia and New Zealand, said QSR International was awarded first prize in recognition of its ability to use technology to better serve its customers.
“QSR represents outstanding achievement in small business innovation and is a true example of how a small business can become a global leader through innovative use of technology," she said.
QSR International's Small Business Excellence Award (Australia) is accompanied by $25,000 in Dell products and services and consulting time with Chairman and CEO Michael Dell. QSR will now go on to compete with other national winners from Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States for the 2009 Global Dell Small Business Excellence Award in the US in Fall 2009.
5th Asian Mathematical Conference (AMC)
2009-06-22
The Asian Mathematical Conference (AMC) series is a major South East Asian Mathematical Society (SEAMS) conference, held every 4-5 years and hosted by countries in Asia. The first AMC was held in Hong Kong (1990), the second in Thailand (1995), the third in the Phillipines (2000) and the latest was in Singapore (2005). Malaysia will be hosting the conference in 2009.
Date: 22th – 26th June 2009
Venue: Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Objective
The objective of the conference is to provide a forum for mathematics researchers from Asia to foster links and collaborations among themselves and with mathematicians from other parts of the world through discussion of issues, exchange of ideas and the presentation of research findings.
Focus Area
Algebra * Algebraic Geometry * Differential Geometry * Analysis * Operator Algebra * Functional Analysis * Lie Groups * Lie Algebra * Number Theory * Combinatorics * Logic * Foundation of Mathematics * Ordinary Differential Equations * Dynamical Systems * Partial Differential Equations * Topology * Mathematical Aspect of Computer Science * Numerical Analysis & Scientific Computing * Control Theory * Optimization * Operations Research * Probability * Stochastic Process * Statistics * Applications of Mathematics in Sciences * Mathematics Education * Mathematical Finance and Actuarial Science
Activities
QSR International continues global focus via StatWorks partnership in Malaysia and Singapore
2009-06-18
Qualitative data analysis software developer QSR International today announced a partnership with Malaysian firm StatWorks as part of its continued global focus.
Date: 18th June 2009
QSR International CEO John Owen said the company will manage QSR's entire reseller network in Malaysia and Singapore, and deliver local support for its NVivo and XSight software, including training. The partnership recognizes the growth of the research market in South East Asia and the demand for QSR's software in the region.
“Malaysia and Singapore are considered important countries for qualitative data analysis and are known for their efforts in establishing stronger business intelligence (BI) capabilities within government and industry," said Mr Owen.
"StatWorks already offers a comprehensive suite of computational analytics technology to improve BI capabilities and has a strong track record as a reseller for QSR. Their distribution of QSR software in these countries has the potential to significantly impact the way qualitative research is managed in a range of Malaysian and Singaporean industries, from education and health, to finance and market research.”
StatWorks Group Director Maheskantha B said the timing of the partnership was ideal and would help address a gap in the market.,
"Currently, in the South East Asia region, there are many solutions to address the quantitative analysis area, but few good solutions for the qualitative area, especially for academic, government and commercial researchers. NVivo, from QSR International, is the market leader for qualitative researchers working with very rich text-based and/or multimedia information, where deep levels of analysis on small or large volumes of data is required," he said.
"NVivo facilitates the management, exploration and analysis of unstructured data and fits in with StatWorks offerings to our current clientele as well as potential customers in South East Asia. We're very pleased to have been awarded the partnership."
QSR software is already used by academic, government and commercial organizations in more than 150 countries, including Sunway University College in Malaysia and Singapore Management University in Singapore
Mr Owen said QSR's partnership with StatWorks was effective immediately.
About QSR International Software
NVivo 8 allows users to upload and analyze video, audio, images and text side-by-side. Use it to test theories; identify trends and cross-examine information in a multitude of ways by classifying, sorting and arranging thousands of pieces of information; examine complex relationships in the data; and, combine subtle analysis with linking, shaping, searching and modelling features. Professional models and charts can be created, and NVivo project files and results can be shared via mini websites – even with those who don’t have NVivo. The software can also identify the work of individual team members even after separate projects are merged.
QSR's XSight software – designed specifically for commercial researchers and analysts with tight deadlines to meet - will also be sold by StatWorks.
About StatWorks Group
StatWorks, a leading Computational Analytics Solution company, was formed to specifically address the growing market for numerical solutions based on computational analytics technology. The company has since expanded rapidly to include a wide range of high quality numerical analytics software, handheld technology and business intelligence solutions for various business and academia industries
StatWorks has established strong commercial and technical relationships with many leading organizations in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and other regional countries within the South East Asia region. Its customers include Ministry of Education, Government Investment of Singapore, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and Agilent Technologies. StatWorks has Education Technology; Analytical Solutions; and Enterprise Solutions Divisions. For more information, visit www.statwks.com.
Quick facts about QSR International
- QSR International has offices in Europe, North America and Australia.
- The company is the world’s largest qualitative research software developer.
- The company is also the first to deliver qualitative research software programs in Japanese and Simplified Chinese.
- QSR’s flagship products – NVivo and XSight – are sold in more than 150 countries.
- More than 400,000 customers use QSR software and more than 500 organizations hold site licenses for its products.
- QSR customers are drawn from the academic, government and commercial sectors and its largest geographic markets are Europe, the United States and Australasia.
- QSR International has patents pending on a range of unique technological inventions.
- QSR is the most published software developer in the qualitative research field - its software is cited in textbooks, research literature, journals and blogs worldwide.
- QSR International is the only developer in its field to earn Microsoft Gold Partner status and ISV competency.
- All QSR software developers are Microsoft Certified Professionals and all software testers have International Software Testing Qualifications Board certifications.
- An early adopter of emerging technology, QSR was amongst the first software developers in the world to utilize .Net and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express. The company was also the first in its field to develop software using Microsoft XP guidelines and to receive Microsoft’s Certified for Vista accreditation.
- QSR won the Information and Communications Technology category at the Governor of Victoria Export Awards in 2008, 2006 and 2001. It was highly commended in the same category in 2004 and 2002. The company was also selected as a finalist in the Applications and Infrastructure Tools category in the 2007 Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) iAwards and its XSight software was selected as a finalist in the 2007 MRS/ASC Technology Effectiveness Awards in the United Kingdom.
- While QSR International was formally established in 1995, the company has its origins in 1981 – when the first software product, NUD*IST, was developed.
17th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers
2009-06-15
Theme: Education in the Commonwealth: Towards and Beyond Global Goals and Targets.
Date: 15th – 19th June 2009
Venue: Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The 17th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (17CCEM) takes place from 15-19 June in Kuala Lumpur and it is anticipated that attendance will be the highest since the first Commonwealth education conference, held in Oxford, UK, in 1959.
The theme for this year’s 50th anniversary conference is ‘Education in the Commonwealth: Towards and Beyond Global Goals and Targets’.
The meeting will bring together a diverse range of educational stakeholders, including Education Ministers, senior officials, and representatives from national and international agencies, academics, teachers, NGOs, youth and the private sector.
PTC Targets Key Barriers to Productivity with Pro/ENGINEER® Wildfire® 5.0
2009-06-08
Pro/ENGINEER® Wildfire® 5.0:
New release dramatically increases design efficiency and introduces the industry’s first CAD-enabled solution for social product development.
Date: 8th June 2009
Venue: NEEDHAM, MA.
The Product Development Company®, today announced the launch of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0, the next major release of its integrated 3D CAD/CAM/CAE software and a key component of the PTC®. Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 is scheduled to be available during calendar Q4 FY2009.
Highlights include:
- Make design changes faster and easier!
Real-time, dynamic editing and disruption-free design will help users overcome the traditional barriers to design modification. - Accelerate time to productivity by up to 10X.
- User Experience enhancements such as graphical browsing, intuitive UI enhancements, streamlined tasks and faster performance improve design efficiency and reduce time-to-market from concept through production. Create simplified sub-assemblies, place forms and create molded parts up to 80% faster. You can also analyze weldments up to 10x faster and create facing toolpaths 5X faster
- Provides unsurpassed realism in less time. The Pro/ENGINEER Advanced Rendering Extension will now include high performance rendering technology from mental images. This new integration provides ease of use through quality material presets and real-world illumination models
- Design in a multi-CAD environment faster!
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0 sets the standard for CAD interoperability. With increased native support for other CAD systems and non-geometric data exchange designers can address the time-consuming and error-prone challenges of working with CAD data from multiple systems. - Leverage new, seamlessly integrated Pro/ENGINEER applications.
- Pro/ENGINEER continues to redefine how we work in today's highly coupled, multi-disciplinary design environment. New with Wildfire 5.0, Pro/ENGINEER Spark Analysis Extension is the only commercially available product that helps analyze and optimize the electromechanical clearance and creepage properties of designs.
- Continued technology leadership and enhancements to industry leading modules such as digital rights management, ECAD-MCAD collaboration, and the newly introduced digital human modeling solution will enable users to save significant time and costs associated with wasteful physical prototyping, production rework and field failures.
- Increase collaboration efficiency with breakthrough social product development capabilities.
- Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 5.0, the first CAD solution enabled for social product development, will help users remove the communication barriers preventing them from finding the right people and resources at the right time. The seamless integration between Pro/ENGINEER and Windchill ProductPoint®, which is built on Microsoft® SharePoint® social computing technologies, will help users find and reuse their design community's collective knowledge and improve process productivity.
PTC Asean User Conference 2009 – Engineering for Business Fitness
2009-02-25
PTC ASEAN User Conference 2009:
Learn about PTC’s product roadmap, product development best practices and value added partner solutions
Date: 25 February 2009
Venue: G Hotel, Persiaran Gurney, Penang
The Best of Both Worlds: Business & Technology Value The PTC ASEAN User Conference 2009 bring together the best technology with the best talents from your organization for a one day conference. The goal of PTC ASEAN User Conference 2009 is to deliver unprecedented value for anyone who is evaluating product development solutions or using PTC solutions. At PTC ASEAN User Conference 2009, professionals from all industries and all levels of the organization will benefit from a host of topics, including:
- Delivering Business Value Through Process Optimization
- Ensuring Success through Technology and Process Adoption
- Business & Technology Customer Case Studies
- Product Updates and Demonstrations
- Learning Center
- PTC Technology Partner Solutions
- Networking Reception
Newsletter August 2008
2008-09-11
National Conference on Graphing Calculators (NCGC 2008)
2008-04-16
Date: 16-18 April 2008
Venue: Grand Seasons Hotel KL
With the purpose of discussing new advances and examining various issues in pedagogy, assessment, and curiculum impacted by the incorporation of graphing calculators, the School of Mathematical Sciences, in collaboration with the Education Ministry of Malaysia and the Malaysian Mathemetical Sciences Society, is organizing the 3rd National Conference on Graphing Calculator (NCGC 2008) to be held from April 16-18, 2008 at The Grand Seasons Hotel, Kuala Lumpur.
Tecplot Inc. adds Statworks as new Distributor for Southeast Asia
2007-07-04
Further details, please visit Tecplot
EARCOME 4 2007
2007-06-18
Date: 18th - 22nd June 2007
Venue : HOTEL BAYVIEW GEORGE TOWN, PENANG , MALAYSIA
Theme: Meeting The Challenges of Developing A Quality Mathematics Education Culture
The objectives of the conference are to provide a forum for mathematics educators, teachers and graduate students from the region and beyond to discuss issues, exchange ideas and to present their research findings pertaining to mathematics education.
There will be workshops on the usage of Graphing Calculators during this conference. Further details, please visit EARCOME 4
Kepentingan Ilmu Bantu (Fokus, March 2006)
2006-03-01
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National Conference on Science & Mathematics Education
2004-10-09
"Innovations for Excellence"
2nd National Conference on Graphing Calculators
2004-10-04
Venue: Universiti Sains Malaysia
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Cambridge A-Levels Further Mathematics
2004-08-14
"Benefits & Advantages of Using Handheld Technology (Graphing Calculator) in Teaching,Learning & Examination"
by Mr. Russell Brown
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International Conference on Science and Mathematics Education
2003-10-14
by Universiti Malaya
1st National Conference on Graphing Calculators
2003-07-11
Teaching Maths and Science with Technology
Venue: Universiti Malaya
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Regional Conference at USM Penang Malaysia
2003-04-13
Venue: Universiti Sains Malaysia
" Integrating Technology in the Mathematical Sciences 2003 "
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ICT in Mathematics Seminar
2003-01-28
"ICT Bringing Mathematics To Life "
A talk by Emeritus Professor. Adrian Oldknow, Visiting Fellow, University of London Institute of Education
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Data mining as business tool
2001-10-26
April 26th, 2001
Data mining, or the analysis of data for relationships can server as an important business tool for the banking, financial, economic, marketing, and research and development sectors. with an estimated value of RM31.9 billion worldwide, data mining is especially useful for companies that want to effectively leverage on their database systems, said N.J. Sreedharan, executive director of STATWORKS Malaysia Sdn Bhd, a corporate and academic numerical solutions provider.
"Data that is sufficiently analysed may be able to reveal certain relationships or seasonal correlations which the analyst can then manipulate to increase business profits." he said. Sreedharan said companies may be apprehensive about using data mining as its software applications are not easy to use. Apart from that, the capability and the system's power as well as the reporting structure are factors that determine the uptake of data mining and this is where STATWORKS can offer solutions to address these issues, he said.
The company has been appointed as the distributor in Southeast Asia for Salford Systems Inc's flagship decision tree software Cart and predictive modeling tool Mars. STATWORKS is also a distributor for solutions from companies such as S-Plus, MathCAD 2001, StatServer and StudyWorks. "We are always on the lookout for companies that carry products that with a statistical inclination, and if they are doing numeric computation, STATWORKS would be interested in distributing their products," said Sreedharan.
The company hopes to double its sales revenue this year despite a possible economic slowdown. Last year it managed to grow its business by 80 percent.
Technical computing made easy
2000-12-06
December 6th,2000
Technical computing is no longer the monopoly of advanced engineers and skilled software developers. The solutions in the market are becoming more and more user friendly for technical professionals who are just starting out. Providing graphical user interface (GUI) has been a major sep in making the easier to user. This has also spurred the commercialisation of these solutions which are otherwise limited to the academic sphere.
Technical computing solutions are largely used by engineers and scientists to handle large-scale technical projects in the research industry. The solutions integrate visualisation, computation and programming on one platform. They can be used for a variety of applications such as signal and image processing, medical research , control system design and remote sensing. " In the United States, the commercial markets have taken over the academic markets in using technical computing solutions; although for the rest of the world the predominant users are still academicians who user it as a research tool. ut this will change soon," says Robert Treder, vice president of professional services for the data analysis division at Mathsoft Inc. Jim Tung, The MathWorks' chief market development officer, points out that the worldwide market value of the technical computing market last year was about US$170 million (RM646 million). He claims that The MathWorks lead with about 35 percent of the technical computing market with close competitors such as National Instruments, MathSoft and Wolfram. Mathsoft and MathWorks have competing products with closely similiar names in this market MathSoft first provided the GUI for S-PLUS, its technical computing solution, three years ago, while The MathWorks' GUI for Matlab's latest version 6.0 was only launched in Southeast Asia last month. However, Tung from MathWorks says that GUI is not the best way for all aspects of technical computing,especially if users want complete flexibility in their development work. It's more useful for tasks such as simulating and modelling, he says.
For MathSoft, besides providing the GUI for its technical computing solutions S-PLUS, the company has also moved into the distributed computing space in their effort to reach the commercial market. The company's solution iin this area, StatServer, allows companies to build applications that can be accessed through the Web. According to Treder, most technical computing solutions in the market are moving towards distributed computing where solutions allow physical analysis and graphics to be displayed over the Web with a centralised data in a remote location. Users around the world can then access the information from different countries.
A company that has been an early adopter of this technology is Merill Lynch that has built a program managers to run statistical analysis over the Web, without the need to have software installed in their PCs to run the program. They only need to log on to their Web site and acess information through an interface that can do a very complicated and sophisticated analysis. Merill Lynch's server resides in New York city but its employees all over the world can log on to their system simply by using a Web browser. MathSoft will also be making the StatServer available on all flavours of the Unix platform including Linux, in addition to its current Windows NT. The solution, called Enterprise Application Server (EAS), is expected to be a available in the first quarter of next year. The Java interface implementation on S-PLUS is also expected to be ready by early next year. It will allow interactive interface so users can import and export data, run statistical analyses, and create in sightful graphs through menus and dialogue boxes. Giving an example on the additional features of Java, Treder explains, " When users generate graphics for a given data set, they like to examine the data more indepth. By using a Java interface, we allow users to position their mouse arrow on the graphics and get additional information by just clicking on it." S-PLUS provides business intellingence and decision support applications that use statistical analysis and visualisation methods.
MathSoft is also working on vertical applications for S-PLUS to target specific industry segments. By the middle of next year, the company will be offering an additional module for financial econometrics. "We are also working on an entire suite of functions that provides easier access for manufacturing community. This means the terminology in the GUI will be easier to understand, and users will find the functionalities that they want easily," says Treder. He says that the most luctrative industry for S-PLUS currently is the financial, manufacturing and pharmaceutical industries. "We are also working on techniques and methods of providing our solutions to break into the CRM (customer relationship management) and e-commerce areas. Both of these areas are fairly new to us and to just about anybody else," he adds. In Southeast Asia, the manufacturing industry make up about 20 per cent of MathSoft's customers, besides the academic market which holds 40 per cent. For The MathWorks, the most lucrative market segment will be in research and development (R&D). Its sole distributor in Southeast Asia, TechSource Systems Sdn Bhd says that although about 70 per cent of its customers are from the education sector, the company is making inroads in the increasing number of R&D centres that are being set up in Southeast Asia. "This region will stand out in manufacturing R&D and design processes as it houses a large number of factories. This will be the region's strength," says Tung from MathWorks.
According to Maheskantha B., MathSoft's distributor in Southeast Asia - Statworks (M) Sdn Bhd - MathSoft holds about 25 per cent of the technical computing marketshare in the Southeast Asian Region. "Most users are actually converting to S-PLUS. We have converted several large Government bodies that have been using other solutions," he claims.